Day: 22 February 2014

By Tony Attwood Statues are rather important to the AISA Arsenal History Society, not least because it was at a meeting that three members of AISA had with Ivan Gazidis in 2010 that we suggested the idea of statues around the stadium.  (I also gave him a copy of the recently published “Making the Arsenal”). …

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By Tony Attwood 1973/4 was a season and a half.  An oil crisis and a miner’s strike led to the abandonment of floodlighting, early kick offs and declining attendances.  There were calls for a mid-winter break, desperation over the failure to qualify for the world cup, and early exits from European competitions. Brian Clough took …

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